GUM BOOT SUPPLIES
LICENCES FOR IMPORTATIONS.
STOCKS REPORTED LOW.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
Licences for imports of gum boots from the United Kingdom and other British sources will be granted for 100 per cent of the value for 1941 for the sixth period,. January to December, 1942. Stocks of these essential articles for farm, sea and other wearing are reported to be exceedingly low and there are no reserves. The Federation of Drapers, Clothiers and Boot Retailers prepared a statement for the Department of Industries and Commerce and this disclosed that the average importation of gum boots during the three years 1937, 1938 and 1939 amounted to 261,192 pairs per annum. For the seven months ended July 31 last, importations from Empire countries were 175,728 pairs. This can be taken as the approximate total importations for 1941, as in most cases the bulk of the imports arrive before the end of June in each year. It is to be noted, however, that the prices of rubber and cotton have risen fully ten per cent f.o.b. over the 1941 prices. Incidentally, the position regarding stocks of goloshes in New Zealand was represented to the Department as serious.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 4
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198GUM BOOT SUPPLIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 4
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